YouTube For AppleTV Arrives, iPhone Support On The Way

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YouTube For AppleTV Arrives, iPhone Support On The Way

Apple has just posted a press release announcing the availability of YouTube for AppleTV, which was introduced several weeks ago. Apple TV owners can grab the new service via Software Update.

But the bigger news in the announcement is that YouTube will also be available on the iPhone when it's released at the end of the month.

Both services will feature content encoded in H.264, the higher quality codec used by Apple for most of their video services.

Interestingly, the demo video of the iPhone-YouTube functionality makes it pretty clear that the new feature is not just a browser-based app, which further supports the argument that even Steve Jobs knows real apps are better than web apps.

Apple says that 10,000 YouTube titles will available to iPhone users when the product launches on the June 29th with the rest of the vast YouTube catalog arriving later in the year.